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Diaries, lecture notes, personal accounts, a thesis, photographs, and pamphlets. Includes diaries of Caldwell and his wife, and of George W. Chamberlain, his son-in-law who was a professor of architecture at Cornell; notes kept by Caldwell on Louis Agassiz's lectures; family photographs, clippings, and letters, and an elaborate set of financial accounts kept by Caldwell. Typescript of a vacation journal, 1855.

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Correspondence with colleagues, students, publishers, libraries, and individuals and papers concerning his research and teaching

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Letter, possibly to a J. Bretton, regarding Rev. Dr. Clayton's letter in the 1739 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS concerning coal gas light.

Scope and content Letters from Debye to Sherry K. Hathaway, and bibliographic material relating to Debye. Also, tapes of lectures by Debye given at Georgia Institute of Technology: "Spotlights on Science in the Early Years of the Century," May 8, 1962, and "Structure Determination by Scattering of Radiation," May 9, 1962. Tape and 13 p. transcript of lecture given by Professor Debye at Cornell, "From the Blue of the Sky to the Inside of the Molecule," April 17, 1963. Includes biographical material. Includes...

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Includes publications and subject files.

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Papers include typed copy of biographical sketch, pamphlet on Babcock's life, program, photograph, clippings, address about Cornell history, and "Tables for Qualitative Analysis," 1882.

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Includes letterpress books, 1876-1901; incoming letters, 1881-1903; student papers; and notes on experiments. The correspondence is concerned mostly with establishment of experiment stations in the U.S., with chemical analyses carried out, with other professional and administrative duties, and with family affairs. Also, a journal of a trip to Europe in 1869, speeches, articles, and pamphlets.

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Included are three letters, 1891-1912; two poems written about Cornell and its faculty members; a report on the International Celebration of the Coal Tar Jubilee, July 26, 1906; and a brief report titled "The Manufacture of Indigo from Coal Tar."